I had to reread Bulia's email three times. It was one of those nigh-mythical events that you read happens in Open Source projects, but never see in person. Yet, amazingly, here it was, and I knew Fred's patch would instantly double Inkscape's utility.

The mentioned clones in the article have been around in Flash since forever... Nothing new there (except Flash doesn't care about SVG, nor is it open-source), and one has to wonder why SVG-exporting app's haven't implemented this 'standard' SVG option (apparently)... It's useful as h*ll...